New Deep Zoom Composer – Now with uploading to PhotoZoom and photo stitching

LiveSide - News blog - Deep Zoom Composer updated; now with photo stitching

“The Expression Blend and Design blog has announced an update to the Deep Zoom Composer, now available for download.  In addition to bug fixes and performance improvements, the Deep Zoom Composer will now upload to PhotoZoom.  Now you can store and serve Deep Zoom photo albums you create on PhotoZoom, or upload photos from the Deep Zoom Composer

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The Deep Zoom Composer now also includes the same photo stitching technology from Microsoft Research that powers photo stitching in Windows Live Photo Gallery.”

Microsoft Downloads - Deep Zoom Composer – English

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We are pleased to present a technology preview of Deep Zoom Composer, a tool to allow the preparation of images for use with the Deep Zoom feature currently being previewed in Silverlight 2 Beta 2. The new Deep Zoom technology in Silverlight allows users to see images on the Web like they never have before. The smooth in-place zooming and panning that Deep Zoom allows is a true advancement and raises the bar on what image viewing should be. High resolution images need to be prepared for use with Deep Zoom and this tool allows the user to create Deep Zoom composition files that control the zooming experience and then export all the necessary files for deployment with Silverlight 2.

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Nice to see cross fertilization of different Microsoft photo tech. It would be cool if we were to see more (like the geo-data stuff from the Pro Photo tool, etc). I wonder how re-usable the stitching tech really is? And how hard it was for the Deep Zoom Composer team to integrate it? Why do I care? Just curious and nosy…  lol  ;)

 

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